Success Quotes - Page 13

• There is no point at which you can say, "Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap."

  Carrie Fisher

  Inspirational, Moving On, Learning

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The middle of every successful project looks like a disaster.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Inspirational, Uplifting, Business

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• One of the rewards of success is freedom. the ability to do whatever you like.

  Sting

  Rewards, Ability

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• You don't have to get a job that makes others feel comfortable about what they perceive as your success. You don't have to explain what your plan to do with your life. You don't have to justify your education by demonstrating its financial rewards. You don't have to maintain an impeccable credit score. Anyone who expects you to do any of those things has no sense of history of economics or science or the arts.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Life, Education, Art

  Cheryl Strayed (2015). “Brave Enough: A Mini Instruction Manual for the Soul”, p.10, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Without an open-minded mind, you can never be a great success.

  Martha Stewart

  Double Minded, Open Minded, Broadmindedness

  "Martha Stewart: I Asked Her Nothing; She Tells Me Everything". Interview with Lauren Cahn, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 1, 2014.

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• You must either modify your dreams or magnify your skills

  Jim Rohn

  Motivational, Dream, Monday

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from May 24, 2016

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• Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

  Johnny Carson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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  A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.

  Christopher Reeve

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

  "Still Me". Book by Christopher Reeve, 1999.

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• Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and ablities were used in a way that served others.

  Marianne Williamson

  Mean, Sleep, Night

  Marianne Williamson (1992). “A return to love: reflections on the principles of "A course in miracles"”

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• The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Congratulations, Literature, Talent

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1848). “Hyperion”, p.66

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• You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.

  Flip Wilson

  Motivational, Positivity, Expectations

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• Success is never owned, it is rented, and the rent is due every day.

  Rory Vaden

  Ownership, Payment, Dues

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• Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

  Bill Gates

  Inspirational, Teacher, Business

  Bill Gates, Nathan Myhrvold, Peter Rinearson (1996). “The Road Ahead”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Thought Provoking, Sin, Fellows

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• The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.

  Salvador Dali

  Jealousy, Artist, Resistance

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• Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

  Stephen King

  Motivational, Encouragement, Teenage

  Stephen King (2011). “Danse Macabre”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he's sure of losing.

  George Eliot

  Inspirational, Uplifting, Courage

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.3734, Delphi Classics

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  A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Education

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.73, Pan Macmillan

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• When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe.

  Sumner Redstone

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Frustration

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• A minute's success pays the failure of years.

  Robert Browning

  Inspirational, Softball, Business

  Robert Browning (1899). “Poetical Works”

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• When you're ready to quit, you are closer than you think

  Bob Parsons

  Business, Thinking, Entrepreneur

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• Real success doesn't care how you get there.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Real, Care, Real Success

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• Have a dream, make a plan, go for it. You'll get there, I promise.

  Zoe Koplowitz

  Inspirational, Moving On, Sports

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• Failure is success if we learn from it.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Inspirational, Motivational, Determination

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